How to manually change date and time on a NetWitness Appliance

Resolution

In the event an NTP server is not available, to manually change the system time, follow these steps:

• SSH to the appliance
• Use the "date" command with the below syntax to change the time and date:

where:
     MM: Month
     DD: Day
     hh: Hour
     mm: minutes

Example, to change the date and time to Sept 21, 2024 at 5:48pm UTC:

• Use the date command to confirm changes has been done correctly:

Notes

This command may be used as an interim workaround until ntp can be configured.  Using a properly configured NTP service across all Netwitness servers is still considered the Netwitness best practice.

Product Details

NetWitness Product Set: NetWitness Logs and Packets 
NetWitness Product/Service Type: All Hosts
NetWitness Version/Condition: 11.x , 12.x
Platform: CentOS, AlmaLinux 

Summary

This article describes how to manually change the time on the SA

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